Photobucket charged him $5 to recover his photos. The account was empty (lutr.dev)
The recovery wall offered $5/month or $50/year to 'save $10'. He paid, the bucket was empty, and the cancellation came too late for a refund.
The thread's lawyers had a cheaper answer than the subscription: in the EU a GDPR request forces them to hand over your data for free. And since the site itself claimed to be holding his photos, several readers called it textbook chargeback territory — refund or dispute the charge.
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